Slouching Toward Obsolescence

An art review in today's Times refers to "that slouching-toward-obsolescence format — the newspaper."

Someone should tell the advertisers spending hundreds of millions a year on ads in that format, and the customers paying hundreds of millions of dollars a year to receive it at their doorstep every morning or buy it at the newsstand. Maybe the Times can try it as a new front-page slogan to replace "all the news that's fit to print": "slouching toward obsolescence!"

Sometimes the insecurity of the paper's editors and reporters is hidden behind a veneer of pomposity that verges on arrogance, but at other times — and this is one — some self-awareness shines through to places where readers can catch a glimpse.

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